From AWS Lambda and Azure Functions to Knative and OpenFaaS, we have at least a dozen functions-as-a-service platforms to choose from. Here’s how to navigate the options. Running a server farm in the ...

Nearly a year after rolling out its Azure Functions serverless compute option for running event-driven, modern PaaS apps and services, Microsoft has given it a cross-platform boost. The company ...

The other day, I found myself watching a ticker on a petition site slowly roll over at a million signatures. It was clear that the site was struggling, with authentication emails taking anything up to ...

Is there really such a thing as "serverless computing"? Of course not -- there's always a server somewhere in the mix. But there is a growing movement toward pushing all the backend requirements ...

Microsoft is making available a preview of a "="" service"=""> to compete with AWS Lambda. Microsoft is open sourcing the runtime for Azure Functions, said Microsoft's chief of Cloud and Enterprise, ...

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Fast to start and easy to scale, Elastic Cloud Serverless brings security, observability, and search with decoupled storage, fast, low-latency querying, and zero infrastructure hassle Built on Elastic ...

As a tech leader, a critical part of your role is to evaluate the latest technologies and to make decisions on what and when to adopt. Depending on how risk-averse you and your business are, you may ...